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Eric Ekholm

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Last updated on 2022-07-29.

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Eric Ekholm

Education

PhD, Educational Psychology

Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, VA

2019

Dissertation: Investigating Daily Writing Emotions, Attention Regulation, and Productivity: An Intensive Longitudinal Study

MT, English Education

Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, VA

2012

BA, English

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA

2010

Professional Experience

Data Specialist

Chesterfield County Public Schools

Midlothian, VA

2021 - present

  • Produce reports and visualizations that clearly communicate the results of statistical analyses to school division leadership and other nontechnical audiences.
  • Design and conduct program evaluations using rigorous statistical methods.
  • Develop and maintain internal R packages to streamline analytic workflows.
  • Create dashboards to help teachers, principals, and school division leadership extract actionable information from large datasets.
  • Develop predictive models and educate end-users on their appropriate use.

Associate Director of Early Childhood Data and Analytics

Virginia Department of Education

Richmond, VA

2019 - 2021

  • Oversaw the development of LinkB5, Virginia’s early childhood data portal, including guiding UI/UX and business logic decisions to support users.
  • Facilitated data sharing and research efforts with external partners, including public and private organizations.
  • Created individualized early childhood reports and visualizations for state legislators and other state officials.
  • Used data and published research to recommend equitable measurement criteria and thresholds for Virginia’s early childhood quality rating and improvement system.

Graduate Research Assistant

Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, VA

2016 - 2019

  • Published 11 peer-reviewed articles on a variety of topics, including statistical methodology, student motivation, student emotional experiences, and belief development.
  • Employed a variety of statistical methods to answer research questions, including multilevel modeling, structural equation modeling, psychometric analyses, meta-analysis, and more.

English Teacher

Chesterfield County Public Schools

Chesterfield, VA

2012 - 2016

  • Taught 8th grade English to a diverse student population
  • Differentiated lessons to meet individual student needs

Selected Blog Posts

Selected Academic Publications

Trajectories of students’ writing feedback attitudes

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2022

  • Zumbrunn, S., Ekholm, E., Broda, M., & Koenka, A.C. Journal of Experimental Education

Relative Contribution of Verbal Working Memory and Attention to Child Language

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2021

  • Chow, J.C., Ekholm, E., & Bae, C.L. Assessment for Effective Intervention

Clarifying an elusive construct: A systematic review of writing attitudes

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2018

  • Ekholm, E., Zumbrunn, S., & DeBusk-Lane, M. Educational Psychology Review

Humor and Other Publications

If You Take My Survey, I’ll Let You Watch Me Cut My Finger Off

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2016

  • McSweeneys Internet Tendency

Selected Talks and Presentations

Who we are and what we do: A conversation of the intersecting identities of early career educational psychologists and their engagement with community partners

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2022

  • Panelist at the American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Meeting.

Data Viz Tips & Tricks

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2022

  • Ekholm, E. Invited talk presented to the Educational Research & Evaluation Network (EREN).

Using machine learning to support student attendance practices

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2021

  • Ekholme, E., & Fox, P. Session presented at the annual Metropolitan Education Research Consortium (MERC) conference, Richmond, VA.

Investigating relations between writers’ emotional experiences and attention regulation: A daily diary study

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2020

  • Ekholm, E., & Zumbrunn, S. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting.